White House goal is a transformation

Joel McBroom

Friday

Mar 15, 2013 at 12:01 AMMar 15, 2013 at 7:44 PM

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” said Rahm Emanuel in 2009. This approach has been essential for this administration and much of the Democrat leadership in order to fundamentally transform the United States.

To the editor:

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” said Rahm Emanuel in 2009. This approach has been essential for this administration and much of the Democrat leadership in order to fundamentally transform the United States.

After all, when facts don’t support you, you must rely on raw emotion and the drama of a crisis — real or created. Based on the American public’s apparent obsession with the Honey Boo Boo and Kardashian ilk, shallowness and emotional theater are probably much more compelling than boring old facts anyway. No thinking required; just reaction.

Crisis management is also instrumental in obscuring ineptitude and deceit. The Fast and Furious operation was one such attempt. I suspect one of the goals of Fast and Furious, at least among the most progressive, was to encourage gun violence along the border. This would have provided an ideal springboard to legislate against the Second Amendment. Information leaks and the death of a border agent mucked up their opportunity. Fast and Furious was never a serious law enforcement operation because even the dimmest government bureaucrat had to know that tracking illegal activities across international borders without coordination would be a fool’s errand.

The Sandy Hook tragedy was a gilded invitation for gun-control enthusiasts. Activists seized the emotional moment and started shrieking and braying while victims were still at the coroner’s facilities.

The White House News Agency, also known as MSNBC, did its part to whip the public into frenzy. Ed Shultz said he was going to help confiscate firearms. That is impressive until you recognize that fringe liberals don’t do anything that requires heavy lifting. They are strictly talking heads or community organizers.

“It’s all about the kids” really means it’s all about the politics. For 2011, the CDC lists 690 firearm deaths and 1,339 auto-related deaths for children from 1 to 18 years old.

Sandy Hook was an opportunity to regulate — no matter that new gun laws will not have the claimed impact — and gun-control advocates are counting on it. More legislation will follow until their social goals are achieved.

“Occupy” was one of those planned-spontaneous movements that was milked of every ounce of political usefulness. It is politically chic these days to discredit the evil rich. How dare they work 80-hour weeks and take financial risks when they could wait for their fair share of government largesse. They make slackers look bad. Democrats described so-called Occupiers as noble and socially responsible; as opposed to their descriptions of Tea Party folks as fascist and racist hooligans.

Had the Tea Party vandalized property, defecated in public and defiled their rally sites, they may have curried some Democrat favor. George Soros did manage to scrape together $3.6 million to keep the occupiers in food and booze. In the end, Occupy served its purpose, creating a facade of social injustice to demand “fairness.”

Sequestration is the latest variation of the crisis theme. For weeks, administration officials played the economic Armageddon tune, shed crocodile tears for the middle class and lamented the federal services that were to be gutted.

What they did not and would not explain was why all of those essential services would be reduced with 97.7 percent of the budget untouched.

Nothing is being cut; it is simply frozen at the 2012 level. Pay no attention to that $250 million gift we just gave to Egypt. Ignore the fact that when offered flexibility to spread the spending freeze throughout government the president refused.

These austerity antics are but the hammer used to shape government dependency. The oft revered middle class is nothing but fodder for the president’s transformation. As with any narcissist, President Obama’s priority is his enormous ego. He disdains any philosophy but his own.

These crisis charades have one goal — wrest the House from Republican control in 2014; remove dissent; and complete the transformation.

The perverse irony here is that if the Republicans are crushed, the Democrats will be next.

Joel McBroom

Jacksonville

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